![MORIYAMA, Daido. Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting). Provenance: Daido Moriyama (presentation inscription, dated 30 May 1972, to:) -- Shigeru Wakabayashi.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_03013_0362_000(moriyama_daido_shashin_yo_sayonara_bye_bye_photography_tokyo_shashin_h020931).jpg?w=1)
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MORIYAMA, Daido. Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting). Provenance: Daido Moriyama (presentation inscription, dated 30 May 1972, to:) -- Shigeru Wakabayashi.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY MORIYAMA in the year of publication. Bye Bye Photography is 'one of the most extreme photobooks ever published', and 'a brilliant barrage of stream of consciousness imagery' -- Moriyama's 'willingness to be led to the edge of photography's coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing by a camera that almost has a mind of its own' (The Photobook). A very good copy of a book often found in poor condition. 101 Books, pp.218-20; Auer, p.543; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, p.29; The Open Book, pp.290-91; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.298-99.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY MORIYAMA in the year of publication. Bye Bye Photography is 'one of the most extreme photobooks ever published', and 'a brilliant barrage of stream of consciousness imagery' -- Moriyama's 'willingness to be led to the edge of photography's coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing by a camera that almost has a mind of its own' (The Photobook). A very good copy of a book often found in poor condition. 101 Books, pp.218-20; Auer, p.543; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, p.29; The Open Book, pp.290-91; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.298-99.